The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-25


rock laborers and carpenters.
Mrs. ]. II. Aston, of Green Cove Springs,
died last Wednesday, and was buried next
day in Hickory Grove cemetery.
The ladies of the Anthony Methodist Aid
Society realized a neat sum at their festival
for the benefit of the church building.
At Anthony melons arc plentiful, some
weighing forty pounds, and are being
shipped from this depot by the carload.
The Hughes contempt case at Gainesville
was settled Thursday. He made public
o Of $9g !" open '0uF' anu p"io the 'lno
The South Florida railroad has discon-
tinued the trains leaving Kissimmee for
Tampa at $3.50 a m, and leaving Tampa for
Kissimmee at 4:30 p. m.
The Green Cove Springs Sprinq man
tried to slip into jacksonville few days
ago without health warrant, but the quar-
antine officer caught him.
Petitions for an election on the liquor
county for presentation to the County Com
missioners at their next meeting Where is
Orange!
At Maclenny j. c. Smith is putting up
store room next to Pierce's livery stable and
it is understood it will be used as an agri-
cultural store room for all kinds of imple-
ments of agriculture.
Cameron A. Moreno has been appointed
postmaster at Bluff Springs, Escambia
county; Thomas Goodwin, at Litesville,
Bradford county; William j. Carter, at
Pemberton, Sumter county.
A young white man of DeFuniak Springs
stole three-pound pail of butter from one
of the stores several days ago and was ar
rested and fined $40 and costs. Five dollars
per pound is what the buttereost him.
Mr.. Miley Shelter, of Concord has been
offered 81 per pound for his growing crop
of Summarize tobacco which is said to be
one of the finest crops in the country. Mr..
Shelter is AN old tobacco grower and knows
how to handle the weed.
The members of the Orlando Woman's
Christian Temperance Union have organized
military company of twenty-six young
boys, under the name of the Loyal Legion
The company will begin drilling as soon as
suitable room can be secured.
The big ditch which number of Italians
have been digging at Pablo Beach, for the
purpose of draining the land into Pablo
creek, was finished Thursday. The cost of
cutting the same was about 5000. From
100 to 100 Italians were constantly employed
on it for nearly two months.
A meeting of representative colored men
was held at Maitland Thursday, the object
of which was to take steps looking to the
holding of colored peoples fair somewhere
in South Florida in February next. The
towns of South Florida will be canvassed,
| and that one offering the greatest induce
ment will catch the fair.
The old building that has served as
warehouse for the Florida Railway and
Navigation Company for many years at
Maclenny was torn down this week. This
was one of the old land marks of the place
and its being removed will make great
Improvement in the appearance of the place
| though it viii be missed by many.
When the proposals for carrying the mails
| between Tampa and Havana were opened
and examined at Washington, it was found
that none of them were satisfactory, and SO
all were rejected. No action has as yet been
taken, but Second Assistant Postmaster
General Knapp says that in all probability
the contract now in force will be renewed at
the end of the fiscal year.
The DeLand military company had their
| first drill Monday evening, in the large hall
in the Haven Block, which will probably
be fitted up and used as an armory. The
| young gentlemen belonging to the COM
| pany make very creditable appearance in
| their first drill, very few awkward ones
| appearing, and were complimented by sew
eral ex-military gentlemen present.
| Ex-Mayor w. S. Plummer, of Green
| Cove Springs, was married on Wednesday
last to Miss Lavine H. Morgan, of Saratoga,
Rev. DR.. o. Taylor The groom has host
of friends inssGreen Cove who wish him all
the happiness that welded life can bestow
and welcome his bride as another star in the
society of the town. Mr.. and Mrs. Plum
mer will spend the summer North.
The stand pipe for the Orlando water
works is completed and viii be filed and
put in use this week. 1t is 125 feet inches
| high, IL feet in diameter and built of thirty
sections of heavy boiler iron, held together
by rivets 1t is filed from Highland Lake
by a IL inch pipe, and holds 23S, 900 gallons
of water with pressure of IS pounds. 1t
is well worth visiting, and an adventurous
person may ascend to the top by an iron
| ladder fastened to the side.
The drilling on the DeLand artesian well
| is progressing, the lost drill point having
been disposed of by drilling pocket in one
side of the well and pushing the point into
| it. This was done by making a crooked
drill and drilling only one side until a
pocket large enough was formed to receive
the lost drill point and deep enough so that
it would be out of the way when the well
was continued on down. Two hundred and
twenty feet is the depth now reached.
A McWilliams, who came from Virginia
in February and who recently went into
partnership with Sheldon 81 Co., of Lake
Helen, went with Mr.. Sheldon to Jackson
| vile, about two weeks ago, to buy goods,
| and while there concluded TO go on TO New
York for the same purpose, since which
time nothing has been heard from him. His
wife, fearing that he has met with foul
play, left Orange City Thursday, en- route
to Lynchburg, Va, from whence she will
| institute search for him.
Fernandina desires to boom. Here an a
few things she desires A good system of
water works; marine railway or dry dock
for large vessels; public building for
county and city officers that will be credit
to Nassau county; a little more shell ON the
streets and sidewalks; little enforcement
of the law prohibiting animals running on
the streets at will; market building cen
trally located, where meats, fish, oysters,
ETC., can be properly inspected and the sale
systematized; a police force with energy
enough to keep corner loungers on the move;
a few more lightning bugs, nicknamed
street lamps"
| The tie industry is very important item
| in the gulf section about Bombay. The
men engaged in the work make contracts
with the Bombay Manufacturing Company
| for all timber not suitable for saw logs,
which they manufacture into ties and sell
TO the Pensacola and Atlantic railway at
remunerative prices. They get Csc for pine
and BIC. for cypress. The latter, however,
| IL penprnlly inaccessible n gat ont a)ea